There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization however imperfect against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints such people have a corpse in their mouth.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and thus his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
As long as the G.O.P. led by its increasingly visible women continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests the gender gap won't go away.